Josiah Strong Quotes

#1. There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitaly connected with a loving Christ.

Josiah Strong

#2. God is sufficient in all ages for His church.

John Nelson Darby

#3. Let me get this thing straight, Inigo
we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart.

William Goldman

#4. Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

Josiah Strong

#5. Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

Josiah Strong

#6. I would rather die than betray his trust."
"That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed.
"Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones.

J.K. Rowling

#7. I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, 'What is your ambition?' He said, 'I want to have 10 very good suits.'

Luise Rainer

#8. It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#9. There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.

Josiah Strong

#10. The city has become a serious menace to our civilization ... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Josiah Strong

#11. Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

Josiah Strong

#12. When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people go in and out in costume - and it's like a play.

Graciela Iturbide

#13. The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Josiah Strong

#14. If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the 'survival of the fittest?'

Josiah Strong

#15. This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.

Josiah Strong

#16. There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.

Josiah Strong

#17. What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?

Josiah Strong

#18. And I wonder if Beethoven held his breath
the first time his fingers touched the keys
the same way a soldier holds his breath
the first time his finger clicks the trigger.
We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

Andrea Gibson

#19. I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

Elmore Leonard

#20. Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

Josiah Strong

#21. Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

Josiah Strong

#22. Kindness, not rituals, is mankind's greatest prayer.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Josiah Strong

#24. The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

Josiah Strong

#25. The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

Josiah Strong

#26. It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

Josiah Strong

#27. We have seen ... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

Josiah Strong

#28. Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.

Josiah Strong

#29. You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#30. You keep a grip of my heels, Pole, and Scrubb would hold on to yours. The we'll all be comfortable.

C.S. Lewis

#31. Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

Euripides

#32. In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

Josiah Strong

#33. Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most.

Josiah Strong

#34. Certain parts of me became a little bit forgotten, a little bit numb, a little bit dead, and it was nice to have some dead places in me for a little while, to lose a little bit of my broken mind.

Dexter Palmer

#35. When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life
trust, love, mercy, and altruism
then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#36. As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

Josiah Strong

#37. It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.

Josiah Strong

#38. Seriousness is a sickness ... Existense is pure playfulness

Rajneesh